1. duck. Dip,immerse,plunge refer to putting something into liquid. To dip is to put down into a liquid quickly or partially and lift out again: to dip a finger into water to test the temperature.Immerse denotes a lowering into a liquid until covered by it: to immerse meat in salt water.Plunge adds a suggestion of force or suddenness to the action of dipping: to plunge a chicken into boiling water before stripping off the feathers.2. scoop. 9. dive.

dip

to plunge or be plunged quickly or briefly into a liquid, esp to wet or coat

2.

(intransitive) to undergo a slight decline, esp temporarily: sales dipped in November

3.

(intransitive) to slope downwards: the land dips towards the river

4.

(intransitive) to sink or appear to sink quickly: the sun dipped below the horizon

5.

(transitive) to switch (car headlights) from the main to the lower beam US and Canadian word dim

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(transitive)

to immerse (poultry, sheep, etc) briefly in a liquid chemical to rid them of or prevent infestation by insects, etc

to immerse (grain, vegetables, or wood) in a preservative liquid

7.

(transitive) to stain or dye by immersing in a liquid

8.

(transitive) to baptize (someone) by immersion

9.

(transitive) to plate or galvanize (a metal, etc) by immersion in an electrolyte or electrolytic cell

10.

(transitive) to scoop up a liquid or something from a liquid in the hands or in a container

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to lower or be lowered briefly: she dipped her knee in a curtsy

12.

(transitive) to make (a candle) by plunging the wick into melted wax

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(intransitive) to plunge a container, the hands, etc, into something, esp to obtain or retrieve an object: he dipped in his pocket for money

14.

(intransitive; foll by in or into) to dabble (in); play (at): he dipped into black magic

15.

(intransitive) (of an aircraft) to drop suddenly and then regain height

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(intransitive) (of a rock stratum or mineral vein) to slope downwards from the horizontal

17.

(intransitive) often foll by for. (in children's games) to select (a leader, etc) by reciting any of various rhymes

18.

(transitive) (slang) to pick (a person's) pocket

noun

19.

the act of dipping or state of being dipped

20.

a brief swim in water

21.

any liquid chemical preparation in which poultry, sheep, etc are dipped

any liquid preservative into which objects, esp of wood, are dipped

22.

a preparation of dyeing agents into which fabric is immersed

23.

a depression, esp in a landscape

24.

something taken up by dipping

25.

a container used for dipping; dipper

26.

a momentary sinking down

27.

the angle of slope of rock strata, fault planes, etc, from the horizontal plane

28.

Also called angle of dip, magnetic dip, inclination. the angle between the direction of the earth's magnetic field and the plane of the horizon; the angle that a magnetic needle free to swing in a vertical plane makes with the horizontal

29.

a creamy mixture into which pieces of food are dipped before being eaten

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(surveying) the angular distance of the horizon below the plane of observation

Old English dyppan "immerse, baptize by immersion," from Proto-Germanic *duppjan (cf. Old Norse deypa "to dip," Danish døbe "to baptize," Old Frisian depa, Dutch dopen, German taufen, Gothic daupjan "to baptize"), related to Old English diepan "immerse, dip," and perhaps ultimately to deep. As a noun, from 1590s. Sense of "downward slope" is 1708. Meaning "sweet sauce for pudding, etc." first recorded 1825.

n.

"stupid person, eccentric person," 1920s slang, perhaps a back-formation from dippy. "Dipshit is an emphatic form of dip (2); dipstick may be a euphemism or may reflect putative dipstick 'penis' " [DAS].